RE: Eval expression problem

Steve,

How big are the elements in the array 'months', if they are 25 characters or
more then that explains it, the 50 character logtext field would be filled
up with the blanks following the month name.  Try using %trim(Months(Lmm) )
in the first eval and I think it will work ok.  Your second example uses the
%trimr after the month name to remove the trailing blanks.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Moland [SMTP:Steve@Accessp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:26 PM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Eval expression problem
> 
> I can't seem to figure out why the first example does not produce 
> the same answer as the second very kludge example. 
> The day and year and time do not make it into the output field in example
> 1. 
> 
> "Months" is an array of month names. 
> RSFLIB is 10 character (so says RPG ) variable length field 
>      in a file created by SQL. It contains "TRRSF999P" 
> Lmm is a 2 byte signed numeric field containing  05 
> Ldd is a 2 byte signed numeric field containing  28 
> Lyyyy is a 4 byte character field containing  2000 
> Lhhmmss is a 6 byte signed numeric field containing  010647 
> #Time is a 8 byte character field 
> LOGTEXT is 50 character field. 
> 
> I                        *VAR A  113  124  RSFLIB  
> 
> Example 1 
> Eval                    logtext = RSFLIB + ' was rebuilt on ' +  
>                         Months(Lmm) + %editw(Ldd : ' 0') +    
>                         ', ' + Lyyyy  +                             
>                         ' at ' + %editw(Lhhmmss : '0 :  :  ')       
> 
> LOGTEXT = 'TRRSF999P was rebuilt on May                      '  
> 
> Example 2 
> Eval                    logtext = RSFLIB + ' was rebuilt on ' +     
>                         Months(Lmm)                                 
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ' ' +           
>                         %editw(Ldd : ' 0')             
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ', ' + lyyyy 
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ' at ' 
> eval                    #time  =  %editw(Lhhmmss : '0 :  : 
> eval                    logtext = %trimr(logtext) + ' ' + #time    
> 
> LOGTEXT = 'TRRSF999P was rebuilt on May 28, 2000 at  1:06:47 ' 
> 
> Thanks for looking at this 
> Steve 
> 
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